Life 5.0, Jury Statement

Life 2.0, 1999SHARED FIRST & SECOND PRIZEErwin Driessens, Maria VerstappenTicklehttp://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html"Tickle" is a beautifully designed and crafted autonomous robotthat navigates the surface of the body on its rotating rubber-paddedwheels, run by finite state software and tickling as it goes. It knowsto avoid slopes that are too steep, but its "smartness" is also in itstongue-in cheek acknowledgement of the kinds of accoutrements thatare the promise of an encroaching but ever-elusive cybernetic future.